Chapter 137: Nine Golden Pill Transformations
Nangong Chan seemed very shocked that Li Yu had formed the elixir so quickly.
Especially after learning that he did not take too many realm-breaking pills.
The witch's shock was normal and was also within Li Yu's expectations.
After all, he was famous for his poor talent in cultivation. It was known to everyone in the world of immortal cultivation, and it was even written in the book "The Book of Prodigies". However, there were shortcuts to his cultivation, and one could not be judged solely by his talent in cultivation. In order not to arouse other people's suspicion in the future, he had to change other people's stereotype of him.
After cutting off contact with the witch, Li Yu left Yuxu Palace and returned to Yuxuan Peak to refine the elixir.
"Meet the Acting Master."
"Meet the Acting Master!"
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Along the way, no matter they were Qi Refining disciples, Foundation Building elders, or even some Golden Core elders, they all saluted him respectfully. His identity as Acting Sect Leader was different from that of the Seven Sons of Kunlun. When the Sect Leader was not around, he was the person in charge of Kunlun. His status was higher than that of the general Nascent Soul Patriarchs of the sect, and only below a few great elders in the late Nascent Soul stage.
Li Yu returned to Yuxuan Peak and saw Ling'er practicing a set of tiger boxing on the grass in the back garden. Zhou Zixuan was sitting alone on the swing, staring into the distance in a daze.
Li Yu walked over quietly and gently embraced her from behind.
Zhou Zixuan smiled slightly and said, "You're back, Acting Master..."
Li Yu held her in his arms, took a deep breath of her fragrance, and asked: "My disciple, you seem to have something bothering you. Tell me. As the acting headmaster, it is my duty to help Kunlun disciples solve their problems..."
Zhou Zixuan smiled and said, "No, I just miss my mother a little bit..."
Having been together with her for such a long time, they knew each other very well, and they had such a tacit understanding that she could tell which move of the "Liang Yi Jing" to change to with just a glance from Li Yu. If she had something on her mind, how could she hide it from Li Yu?
The two pieces of jade are placed on the pillow, and every moment in the imperial court is worth ten thousand pieces of gold.
When the wind was strong and the rain was heavy, Li Yu suddenly stopped and asked with a smile: "What were you thinking about just now? Tell me quickly..."
This was the time when she was most immersed in herself. Zhou Zixuan felt embarrassed and anxious. Even if she had something else on her mind, she couldn't hide it.
Li Yu used a little trick to find out what was on her mind.
It turned out that a few days ago was the anniversary of her grandmother's death. When she was ten years old, her beloved grandmother passed away. In the nearly ten years that followed, she often saw her grandfather alone and worried.
She had always thought that she and Li Yu had similar talents, and that they could grow old together hundreds of years later. If they could not live together, they could die together.
But while she was happy about the talent Li Yu had recently shown, she also thought of more.
Li Yu, who is more talented, can obviously go further on the road to immortality. By then, he will watch her grow old and reach the end of her life with his own eyes.
When she lived in Ziyun Peak, she saw with her own eyes many female cultivators who were near the end of their lives, with wrinkles all over their faces and looking like skeletons. Every time she thought of it, she felt a lingering fear.
Even the anti-aging pills could not withstand the ravages of time during those final days.
She curled up in Li Yu's arms and said seriously: "If that time comes, I will leave alone quietly. Don't look for me. I don't want you to see me like that..."
Only then did Li Yu realize that this was what she cared about.
Women are really sentimental. She is only in her twenties, but she is already worrying about what will happen five hundred or even a thousand years later.
How long is five hundred years? How many dynasties have passed? An ordinary family has been passed down for twenty generations. Sun Wukong has been released from prison after serving his sentence for causing havoc in Heaven, but she is still worried about the problem of getting old after five hundred years.
Or because I’m too idle.
When the Kunlun disciples of her age were still at the first level of Qi Refining, risking their lives and running around to earn spirit coins, she was already at the peak of the late Foundation Establishment stage, and spent her days tending flowers and taking care of her spirit pets, so she had so much time to daydream.
So in the following days, Li Yu would pull her to practice together whenever he had time.
Then she really didn't have the heart to think about what would happen five hundred years later.
Every time I contacted the demon girl, she was in a bad mood. I didn’t know if she had encountered a bottleneck in her practice. After all, it was not easy for them to practice in the Jindan stage.
The golden elixir turns nine times, each turn leads to a new level of heaven.
There is a faint line on Li Yu's golden elixir, which means the golden elixir has turned.
The golden elixirs of Jiang Li, Senior Sister Xu, and Senior Sister Bai also have only one line on them. Their current cultivation levels are all at the first level of the golden elixir.
As your cultivation level increases, the danwen on the golden elixir will also increase, from one to two, three... until you have nine danwen, then you can try to form a baby.
However, adding a dantian pattern to a golden elixir is much more difficult than opening up an acupuncture point or widening a spiritual vein. With Li Yu's basic talent, it would take at least sixty years of practice, or even longer, to add another dantian pattern to the golden elixir.
Geniuses like Senior Sister Qin and the demon girl are only at the first level of the Golden Core, but they both possess five Golden Cores. In terms of the depth of their magic power, they are not inferior to the fifth level of the Single Spirit Vein Golden Core. In terms of real combat power, they may not lose to a seventh or even eighth level Golden Core late stage powerhouse.
The same thing will happen when Li Yu’s five spiritual veins form a pill.
Unfortunately, at present, only his Golden Spiritual Vein can form pills, and the other four veins have encountered bottlenecks. Unless there are more Golden Spiritual Pills, this thing is too scarce. Not to mention that he is the acting headmaster, even if he is the real headmaster, he cannot embezzle the sect's only three Golden Spiritual Pills per month.
Li Yu asked the witch if she could get the materials for the Golden Spirit Pill.
The answer she got was that the Xuanyin Sect had the materials for the Golden Spirit Pill and had accumulated a lot of them, but even she could not withdraw them at will. There would be hope only if Li Yu joined the Xuanyin Sect and completely took charge of the Xuanyin Sect's pill department.
Li Yu has become the acting headmaster of Kunlun. In another hundred years, he may even have the opportunity to remove the word "acting" in front of the title and join the Xuanyin Sect, but of course he will not consider it.
If this path doesn't work, we can only endure it slowly.
His true talent is average, and the amount of elixirs he can absorb each month is limited. The secular power of faith also takes time. Currently, Li Yu can only focus on dual cultivation.
After the disciple of the sect master became the official acting sect master, there were more matters of the sect that needed to be dealt with.
Li Yu finally understood why every successive headmaster would choose an acting headmaster to help. With tens of thousands of disciples in Kunlun, there were many trivial matters to deal with every day. One person would come to help, and then another would come to help, so there was rarely any free time.
But Li Yu did not complain. The sect treated him well, and it was his duty to do something for the sect.
He came from the grassroots level and has a relatively good understanding of some of the situations in the sect.
After officially taking over the sect's affairs, he began to make many reforms.
The first reform is aimed at those students who have not yet entered the sect.
When he was at Baiyun Temple, Li Yu realized that for a preparatory disciple who had just successfully gathered Qi, it was too dangerous to go down the mountain to carry out the mission, and there was a risk of falling if he was not careful.
Therefore , he cancelled the outer sect missions such as the Baiyun Temple so that the prospective disciples could focus on their practice.
The tasks that were originally assigned to them were transferred to the newly established Kunlun strongholds in various countries. The disciples stationed there had cultivation levels above the fourth level of Qi Refining, and they had magic tools and talismans to protect themselves, so they could handle most worldly tasks with ease.
The second reform he promoted was aimed at those elders in the sect who were nearing the end of their lifespan.
During his stay at Ziyun Peak, Li Yu deeply realized that Kunlun's end-of-life care for the elders who had dedicated their entire lives to the sect was far from enough.
They have dedicated their entire lives to the sect, but in their old age, when their lifespan is about to end, they can only wait for death in a small villa. It is too sad.
So he turned Ziyun Peak into a nursing home, opened free mahjong halls and chess and card halls there, and used his connections to contact other righteous sects, organizing sightseeing tours for them to other sects every month to enrich their lives and reduce their loneliness in their later years.
In addition, he also set up a department specifically to take charge of the affairs after the death of these elders.
When they pass away, the sect will help them deal with everything according to their wishes, so that they can leave peacefully without regrets.
Li Yu could not make decisions on the sect's major affairs, such as the allocation of resources among the peaks and the ownership of high-level elixirs, but these minor matters, as the acting headmaster, were just a matter of a word.
Li Yu's original idea was to do something real for the sect, perhaps to gain the faith of some immortal cultivators.
But the result disappointed him a little.
These reforms received a lot of praise within the sect, especially from the foundation-building elders at Ziyun Peak who were nearing the end of their lifespan. However, Li Yu visited Ziyun Peak several times and did not feel any power of faith from them.
Li Yu was very sure that it was not that immortal cultivators could not generate the power of faith, but compared to mortals, immortal cultivators were only focused on immortality. Apart from the way of immortality, there were few things that could make them believe from the bottom of their hearts, let alone these old men who had lived for more than two hundred years and had seen many storms.
It is much more difficult to obtain the power of faith from a cultivator than from an ordinary person.
After thinking it through, Li Yu temporarily gave up this unrealistic idea.
These days, in addition to his cultivation, he would also wander around the peaks and listen to the voices of these grassroots disciples.
Without investigation, there is no right to speak. Those Nascent Soul ancestors in the sect are all high and mighty, with only their own interests in mind. They have no idea of the difficulties of the lower-level disciples.
Since the master had given him the position of acting headmaster, Li Yu naturally could not just sit there and do nothing.
At Tianzhu Peak, Li Yu had just finished listening to the complaints of several disciples.
The tasks released by the sect were updated too slowly. Often, completed tasks were still displayed on the task list, causing some people to accept tasks repeatedly, but they could not exchange them for spirit coins, wasting time and energy. The order of tasks was also extremely chaotic. Tasks in the same place were on different task walls. When some disciples came back to hand in tasks, they found that there was another task ten miles away from the previous task. They could have done them together, but now they had to make another trip...
Li Yu wrote down all these requests one by one, and planned to summon the deacons and elders of Tianzhu Peak after returning to Yuxu Peak, and ask them to immediately optimize the task system to ensure the timeliness of the tasks.
When leaving Tianzhu Peak and returning to Yuxu Peak, Li Yu discovered that a lot of people were gathered on a certain mountain peak.
Li Yu paused and landed on this peak.
This peak is the Discipline Peak, which is responsible for maintaining the sect's rules. Disciples who violate the sect's rules will be sent to the Discipline Peak for punishment.
At the beginning, someone spread the rumor that he was an undercover agent of the Demonic Path, but Discipline Peak used thundering means to suppress the rumor. Ordinary disciples are still quite afraid of Discipline Peak, and generally nothing good happens when they come to Discipline Peak.
